My aunt introduced me to this recipe years ago. She said you could founder on it. Now that is a horse reference and definitely something you DON’T want to happen! It’s a bad deal. But this recipe, it’s excellent And for me to say this it must be pretty darn good b/c I’m generally not…
You have no idea how happy I am that God brought us back together. We drifted apart, but partially I think we both had to go make our “mark” on the world. You left yours on a wall in Afghanistan and I wrote mine in the beaches in Costa Rica. We took very different paths…
To make self-rising flour: Mix 4 cups flour, 3 tsp salt and 2 tsp baking powder. Store in a tightly covered container. One scant tablespoon of bulk yeast is equal to one packet of yeast Unbaked cookie dough can be covered and refrigerated for up to several hours or frozen in an airtight container for…
Or maybe even a blonde moment… oh wait, I’m not blonde. haha, j/k to all my blonde friends. I have been before in my life 🙂 Ok so Sunday afternoon after church hubby and I went to my parents house. My dad walked into the kitchen where we were standing and handed me this: As…
Saturday afternoon my hubby and I were tired of hanging around the house. It really was too hot to do much, so we jumped in the car and headed off toward West Mineral, KS toward Big Brutus. About a year ago or so we had a really funny conversation about this one restaurant in this…
When I was a little kid, my dad took me somewhere in Kansas to see Big Brutus. Turns out, Big Brutus is in West Mineral, KS. So can you tell how big Big Brutus is?? Big Brutus is the nickname for this massive machine, a Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel. It was the…
So we all have funny moments in our life growing up. I’m not going to lie, I’m scared to death about getting Alzheimer’s and forgetting those moments. Those OH CRAP moments when you were a kid that now bring tears to your eyes laughing about it 10, 15, 20 years later. So I’m going to…
With the temperatures scorching us here in the Midwest (We’re supposed to see 100 today!), I wanted to share this great little Ice Cream place that’s just around the corner (You know, depending on where you live…). A few weekends ago we went out to lunch with my parents. When we were leaving the restaurant…
When I was a little kid my dad called me McGillycuddy. I have no idea why. I have no idea where the name came from. I don’t know anything about the name other than he called me that and I answered. It was one of the very few nicknames I’ve been given. Normally my parents…